I have told this story a few times here but having gone through a very similar experience in 2008, I can attest to how scary it is when your vehicle is surrounded by a mob with them pounding on your vehicle.
We were in Little Rock for a family wedding. Crowding issues, so we were staying at The Peabody downtown. For those unfamiliar with that hotel, entire front is glass with a portico to drive under for the valet parking. Because f wedding related stuff we had been staying there for multiple days. Hotel security knew my SUV because of the valet service.
So, we were coming back from a wedding related thing at about 9:30 at night. What we didn't know was that the annual Arkansas verson of Juneteenth had been kicked out of Conway and it mover to Little Rock for that year.
Exit the interstate, immediately see crowds filling and blocking the streets. One, ONE cop car with its hood up. No other cops anywhere. BUT every off street to get away from that one, were blocked. Until about a half mile past the hotel. Finally find a place to be able to turn aound to come back to our hotel and then we hit the thick of it.
Completely surrounded, inching forward. Pounding on the car and windows, shouting. The Hubs goes to reach under the seat and then says, "Damn! We are in your car and you don't have a gun!" Which I didn't...then.
Finally get back to The Peabody and pull under the portico which is crowded with people, hundreds. Hotel security comes running out, literally picks me up and carries me into the hotel and surrounds The Hubs and hustles him inside while my SUV is whisked under ground into valet parking with the metal gate crashing down two seconds after the rear bumper cleared the opening.
It is very frightening to be surrounded like that and that was not an angry mob as much just a Juneteenth event. Celebratory, I guess. But the cops just abandoned the area in any event. Wanted nothing to do with it. Even had something bad happened to us, calling 911 would not have resulted in a response for several hours, at a minimum.
And that was even more scary. The police were never going to be there to help. We were on our own and weren't carrying because we were in my car and out of state.